"A man who says that no patriot should attack the war until it is over... is saying no good son should warn his mother of a cliff until she has fallen."

"Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc."

"How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win."

"True contentment is a thing as active as agriculture. It is the power of getting out of any situation all that there is in it. It is arduous and it is rare."

"Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals; nay it is treachery to comrades."

"The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense."

"Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all."

"I was planning to go into architecture. But when I arrived, architecture was filled up. Acting was right next to it, so I signed up for acting instead."

"The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people."

"Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to mean that half a loaf; is better than a whole loaf."

"An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered."

"I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite."

"There is nothing the matter with Americans except their ideals. The real American is all right; it is the ideal American who is all wrong."

"The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all."

"I've searched all the parks in all the cities and found no statues of committees."

"The present condition of fame is merely fashion."

"Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere."

"What people call impartiality may simply mean indifference, and what people call partiality may simply mean mental activity."

"Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously."

"Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair."

"We call a man a bigot or a slave of dogma because he is a thinker who has thought thoroughly and to a definite end."

"Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity."

"And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow."

"People generally quarrel because they cannot argue."

"The trouble with always trying to preserve the health of the body is that it is so difficult to do without destroying the health of the mind."

"A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition."

"A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching."

"Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache."

"All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry."

"Never invoke the gods unless you really want them to appear. It annoys them very much."